Can’t attend? Follow FGS 2011 Live Twitter Stream

Let’s face it, jetting around to genealogy conferences gets expensive. But don’t despair. You can attend vicariously though the social media aficionados at any conference. Here is a portion of the news stream from David Rencher’s keynote address at the Federation of Genealogical Societies conference all the way from Springfield, Illinois, September 7 to 10, 2011.

Societies have a chance to participate in the indexing of the 1940 census by partnering with FamilySearch. #fgs2011

These and others attending the conference are your reporters on the ground, reporting news on Twitter and other social media as it happens. They play an important role in spreading the word about any event and can give those not attending a look and taste of actually being there.

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